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A proper vertex coloring of a connected graph $G$ is called an odd coloring if, for every vertex $v$ in $G$, there exists a color that appears odd number of times in the open neighborhood of $v$. The minimum number of colors required to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Sriram Bhyravarapu , Swati Kumari , I. Vinod Reddy

In this paper, we study the parameterized complexity of several variants of scheduling with precedence constraints between jobs. Namely, we consider the single machine setting with delay values on top of the precedence constraints. Such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Hans L. Bodlaender , Maher Mallem

A b-coloring of a graph is a proper coloring such that every color class contains a vertex that is adjacent to all other color classes. The b-chromatic number of a graph G, denoted by \chi_b(G), is the maximum number t such that G admits a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Flavia Bonomo , Oliver Schaudt , Maya Stein , Mario Valencia-Pabon

This paper studies the kernelization complexity of graph coloring problems with respect to certain structural parameterizations of the input instances. We are interested in how well polynomial-time data reduction can provably shrink…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Bart M. P. Jansen , Stefan Kratsch

We examine ordered graphs, defined as graphs with linearly ordered vertices, from the perspective of homomorphisms (and colorings) and their complexities. We demonstrate the corresponding computational and parameterized complexities, along…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Michal Čertík , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Jaroslav Nešetřil , Paweł Rzążewski

Clique-width is one of the graph complexity measures leading to polynomial special-case algorithms for generally NP-complete problems, e.g. graph colourability. The best two currently known algorithms for verifying c-colourability of graphs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Bruno Courcelle , Irène Durand , Michael Raskin

Combining the techniques of approximation algorithms and parameterized complexity has long been considered a promising research area, but relatively few results are currently known. In this paper we study the parameterized approximability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Michael Lampis

A b-chromatic colouring of a graph $G$ is a proper $k$-colouring of the vertices of $G$, for some integer $k$, such that, for each colour $i$ ($1\leq i\leq k$), there exists a vertex $v$ of colour $i$ such that $v$ is adjacent to a vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Fabricio Mendoza Granada , David Manlove

Finding paths in graphs is a fundamental graph-theoretic task. In this work, we we are concerned with finding a path with some constraints on its length and the number of vertices neighboring the path, that is, being outside of and incident…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Max-Jonathan Luckow , Till Fluschnik

Given a graph $G$ and an integer $b$, Bandwidth asks whether there exists a bijection $\pi$ from $V(G)$ to $\{1, \ldots, |V(G)|\}$ such that $\max_{\{u, v \} \in E(G)} | \pi(u) - \pi(v) | \leq b$. This is a classical NP-complete problem,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Tatsuya Gima , Eun Jung Kim , Noleen Köhler , Nikolaos Melissinos , Manolis Vasilakis

We study the complexity of a generic hitting problem H-Subgraph Hitting, where given a fixed pattern graph $H$ and an input graph $G$, the task is to find a set $X \subseteq V(G)$ of minimum size that hits all subgraphs of $G$ isomorphic to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Marek Cygan , Dániel Marx , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk

We investigate the List $H$-Coloring problem, the generalization of graph coloring that asks whether an input graph $G$ admits a homomorphism to the undirected graph $H$ (possibly with loops), such that each vertex $v \in V(G)$ is mapped to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Hubie Chen , Bart M. P. Jansen , Karolina Okrasa , Astrid Pieterse , Paweł Rzążewski

We completely classify the computational complexity of the list H-colouring problem for graphs (with possible loops) in combinatorial and algebraic terms: for every graph H the problem is either NP-complete, NL-complete, L-complete or is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Laszlo Egri , Andrei Krokhin , Benoit Larose , Pascal Tesson

This paper investigates the complexity of finding secluded paths in graphs. We focus on the \textsc{Short Secluded Path} problem and a natural new variant we introduce, \textsc{Shortest Secluded Path}. Formally, given an undirected graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Tesshu Hanaka , Daisuke Tsuru

We investigate a number of coloring problems restricted to bipartite graphs with bounded diameter. First, we investigate the $k$-List Coloring, List $k$-Coloring, and $k$-Precoloring Extension problems on bipartite graphs with diameter at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Victor A. Campos , Guilherme C. M. Gomes , Allen Ibiapina , Raul Lopes , Ignasi Sau , Ana Silva

We present completeness results for inference in Bayesian networks with respect to two different parameterizations, namely the number of variables and the topological vertex separation number. For this we introduce the parameterized…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Hans Bodlaender , Nils Donselaar , Johan Kwisthout

Golovach, Paulusma and Song (Inf. Comput. 2014) asked to determine the parameterized complexity of the following problems parameterized by $k$: (1) Given a graph $G$, a clique modulator $D$ (a clique modulator is a set of vertices, whose…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Gregory Gutin , Diptapriyo Majumdar , Sebastian Ordyniak , Magnus Wahlström

We investigate two types of graph layouts, track layouts and layered path decompositions, and the relations between their associated parameters track-number and layered pathwidth. We use these two types of layouts to characterize leveled…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Michael J. Bannister , William E. Devanny , Vida Dujmović , David Eppstein , David R. Wood

We investigate the parameterized complexity of the following edge coloring problem motivated by the problem of channel assignment in wireless networks. For an integer q>1 and a graph G, the goal is to find a coloring of the edges of G with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-13 Prachi Goyal , Vikram Kamat , Neeldhara Misra

In this paper, we show that Bandwidth is hard for the complexity class $W[t]$ for all $t\in {\bf N}$, even for caterpillars with hair length at most three. As intermediate problem, we introduce the Weighted Path Emulation problem: given a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Hans L. Bodlaender